Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
More George Jones Quotes
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.
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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I’m an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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